Have Claude Cowork fix a years-old printer issue

Cowork got a 10-year-old printer’s “scan to computer” button working again after years of failed manual attempts.

by Arpit Agarwal8 Oct 2026

Prompt for your agent

Goal: Fix a device feature that stopped working years ago.
Setup: agents used in source: Claude.
Steps:
1. Describe the symptom to Cowork (e.g. the printer’s scan-to-computer button does nothing).
2. Let it investigate settings and drivers on the Mac and apply the fix.
Rules: ask me before anything irreversible (sending, posting, paying, deleting); don’t invent data, results or tools I haven’t given you; tell me what you couldn’t verify.
Based on: Arpit Agarwal — https://x.com/arpitagarwal1/status/2108065673566122051 (summarised from source; the source has no explicit step list)

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